I picked up the bowl, pulled out the soft & sticky dough, placed it on my wooden board and started punching it vigorously.

Yes, you got it right, I am baking bread again. Well, with the dates of an important family function nearing, bread making should be the last thing on my mind.

But then, when your to-do list is a mile long and it is getting difficult to focus on the mounting task at hand I resort to baking bread.

Baking bread at home is the best remedy when nothing is working and you don’t know where to start.

I love getting lost in the rhythm of bread making process and like the sense of being totally cut off from the world till my bread is done. Lifting the dough, stretching, folding and kneading the soft and fluffy dough with the heels of your palm is so soothing.

One of the joys of keeping my passion of food blogging alive is the opportunity to connect with food enthusiasts from across the world making new friends who end up lasting a lifetime is an added bonus to it.

During our casual talk the other day I informed her about my son’s Upanayanam (holy thread ceremony) and how hectic the coming days would be, what with the shopping, planning, and inviting friends and relatives for the function.

And some days later, to my surprise, I receive a flipcart delivery from her, a beautiful and very thoughtful gift for my son!

These words by Anais Nin perfectly resonate my feelings, “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”